The tree is smaller this year: 

those in pots on the patio  

too heavy to drag inside.   

You with your knee and shoulder, 

me recovering after the hernia.  

Yet we’ll have ten round the table 

this Christmas, all being well, 

including three bright-eyed grandchildren 

plus one neurotic greyhound 

spooked by the beeping hob and oven.  

The weather is bleak o...

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